ABSTRACT
Some authors have long attempted to establish whether drug dreams might have some prognostic value in the treatment of drug-addicted patients. C. Kibira claimed that alcoholic patients who had drinking dreams were abstinent from alcohol for three to nine months, and were less likely to relapse because they were less depressed. An example of the differentiation of drug dreams in relation to prognosis was that of S. D. Reid and D. T. Simeon's study on crack cocaine addicted patients. In S. Brown's model, the emotions appearing in the drug dreams and on awakening, rather than their contents, may give prognostic indications. To sum up, the basic assumption of the proposed two-way prognostic model is that drug dreams try to have, via the hallucinatory fulfilment of the desire for drugs, a "discharge" effect on drug craving pressure. The dreams in which drug use fails might sometimes be the expression of a resistance to drug use.
